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Cyrus the Great (born 590–580 bce, Media, or Persis [now in Iran]—died c. 529, Asia) was a conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia and comprising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. He is also remembered in the Cyrus legend—first recorded by Xenophon, Greek soldier and author, in his ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. In Herodotus ’s historically dubious account of Cyrus’s upbringing, Cyrus overthrows his grandfather Astyages and unites the latter’s Median kingdom with the Persian one he inherited. Herodotus’s telling proceeds in a recognizably mythic fashion: King Astyages has a dream that his grandson Cyrus ...
Sep 8, 2022 · Queen Elizabeth II’s father was Albert Frederick Arthur George, more commonly known as King George VI. The former king was born in 1895, during the tail end of the reign of his great ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Louis XVI (born August 23, 1754, Versailles, France—died January 21, 1793, Paris) was the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. The monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792; later Louis and his queen consort, Marie-Antoinette, were guillotined on charges of counterrevolution.
May 14, 2018 · Henry IV (1553-1610) was king of France from 1589 to 1610. The first Bourbon monarch, he faced internal discord caused by the Wars of Religion and the economic disasters of the late 16th century and external danger posed by the powerful Hapsburg monarchy of Spain. Born at Pau in Béarn on Dec. 14, 1553, Henry IV was the son of Antoine, Duc de ...
May 14, 1610. Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, son of Jeanne d’Albret and Antoine de Bourbon; b. December 14, 1553, in the castle of Pau; d. May 14, 1610. He began his military career under Admiral de Coligny and, from 1569, played a decisive part in the wars of religion as head of the Protestant party. By the death of the Duke of Anjou ...
May 14, 2019 · Immortalised in the Bayeux tapestry, 14 October 1066 is a date that decided the course of English history. Norman invader William the Conqueror defeated his Saxon opponent King Harold II at Hastings. This ushered in a new age for England, with many noble lines now mixing French and English blood. This blurred identity shaped the tumultuous ...
